Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anni Albers. The Albers and their students at Black Mountain College are the subject of an eclectic exhibition at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, an exhibition which draws on nearly forty years of artistic production to reveal the creative energy and inquisitive imagination of two of the finest masters of abstract design...
Leadership is impossible in the abstract without a framework of more or less shared goals. The U.S. still seems able to articulate goals in general terms, but it is deeply divided on the specifics, the realities. It has, in short, lost its national consensus (although that consensus may never have been quite so solid as it has appeared in times of surface unity, such as of the Eisenhower years...
...matter how abstract in appearance Miró's paintings become, they are rarely so in origin. What he would like to do is turn the process around: instead of nature generating art, "the picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth." In Miró's view, it can do so if it is animistic enough...
This contrast between precise objects, minuscule in size, and the limit less field across which they pullulate is central to Miró, and it corresponds to the fundamental experience of his vision. Even when Miro is at his most abstract, therefore, one is constantly reminded that his name, in Spanish, means...
...After Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko opened his veins in his Manhattan studio four years ago, his estate of 798 paintings was divided between his two children and a foundation for struggling older artists. His dealer was Marlborough. Marlborough immediately signed a contract with the estate's executors (one of whom was Marlborough Treasurer-Secretary Bernard Reis) to buy 100 choice Rothkos outright for $1.8 million, payable without interest over twelve years-an effective average price of $13,000 apiece at a time when, the plaintiffs allege, Rothkos were going on the open market for between...